ELLEN NEEDS INSURANCE

Directed by Dru Johnston
Written by Ellen Haun & Dru Johnston
Starring Ellen Haun
Produced by Dru Johnston, Ellen Haun, Darren Miller & Savvas Yiannoulou
Read more about why we made this film HERE

Writer, Actor & Comedian

Currently based in Los Angeles, Dru Johnston has appeared in such shows as Orange is the New Black, The Last OG, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Law and Order: SVU, and has written for The Chris Gethard Show, The MTV VMAs and the audible original 64th Man among others. His writing has also been featured in The New Yorker, Funny or Die and Slate, his pilot God, Inc. was purchased to be adapted into an animated feature, and his feature film script The GarbageMan was the Feature Winner of the 2021 Screencraft Comedy Competition, and was the number one comedy script on Coverfly. He is also a winner of the Andy Kaufman Award for his performance as Dr. Turkey… a turkey man who’s also a staunch creationist.

Born and raised just outside of Seattle, Dru graduated with a degree in theatre from Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. After a summer spent in Seattle doing Shakespeare in the park and experimental movement theatre he decided to move to New York City to try to monetize that experimental movement theatre. Surprisingly… that did not work. But he did begin training at the UCB Theatre where he became a writer, performer and teacher.

While at the UCB he wrote and starred in the sold out shows Sketches From An Italian Restaurant: A Billy Joel Sketch Show alongside Don Fanelli, and the new episode of Seinfeld The Leaning Susan in which he played George Costanza. He is also a veteran improvisor having performed around the country with UCB TourCo, performing every Saturday night with his team Grandma’s Ashes, winning multiple cage-match titles with his indie team Fuck That Shit (A Comedy Team), and reprising his role of George Costanza in the long running sold out hit Improvised Seinfeld.

He was also one of the original producers and writers of The Chris Gethard Show from it’s time on Manhattan Public Access, and helped shape and shepherd the show through it’s run at TruTV.